My Ethan fic recs - Part 1

Most of these recs come from the Ethan-Ficathon Masterlist, but not all.

Title: Anywhere But Here
Author: Sarah T.
Pairing: Ethan & Dawn
Rating: ?
Summary: Dawn takes a field trip and has some educational fun
My Comment: Plotty, funny, fresh and unexpected

Title: Pavlov's Bells
Author: Doyle aka doyle_sb4
Pairing: Riley/Ethan
Rating: edging into R
Summary: A day after Sunnydale he's back in uniform and on a military flight to Belize, and three weeks after that he's in a dirty room above the post office in Punta Gorda with a girl on her knees beside him.
My comment: chillingly dark and creepy, with junkie!Riley and an imprisoned Ethan. I have a soft spot for prison fics or storylines revolving around the Initiative. This one is memorable.

Title: Silent Upon a Peak in Darien
Author: Doyle aka doyle_sb4
Pairing: None
Rating: PGSummary: How Ethan Got His Groove Back.
My comment: A story that has strong realistic roots and convincing original characters. Comes very close to original fiction.

Title: What About Me?
Author: gwynnega
Pairing: Ethan/Giles (also implied Willow/Giles)
Rating: PG
Summary: Ficathon story - A fleeting moment of old love - set during S7
My comment: Draws nice parallels between Willow and Ethan. On the fluffy side.

Title: Chaos Bringers
Author: Voleuse
Pairing: Ethan/Spike
Rating: NC-17
Summary: It's the only way to be. - Futurefic, non-spoilery
My comment: It's like evil poetry - smutty, dark, utterly anarchic. Normally I love these two redeemed or half-way redeemed, but watching them spread chaos? Delicious!

Title: Dissonance
Author: Trekker aka trkr47
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Giles/Ethan
Summary: Their paths crossed and re-crossed, woven like the double helix of DNA
My comment: A nice wistful moment that captures Ethan's desire to stay as well as his customary restlessness.

Title: Tit for Tat
Author: serasempre
Pairing: Ethan/ Lindsey
Rating: NC-17
Summary:Silk and tangible chaos - Lindsey gets a tattoo
My comment: Very very dark, but beautifully written.

Title: Wabi
Author: katemonkey
Pairing: Ethan/Oz
Rating: PG13
Summary: Ethan, Oz, Japan, Haiku
My comment: Amazing images, a fascinating and unusual story that is entirely made out of haiku, short poems of a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. Very clever.

Spuffy drabble

A quick, terrribly sappy Spuffy drabble for spikewriter for her help with Singing in the Rain. Post-NFA - Rated PG:

Reunion

Suddenly he stands before her, running a nervous hand through his hair, and studying his boots instead of looking her in the eye. "Hello Buffy."

And she hits him.

Not a Slayer versus vampire blow, nor a girl versus stalker punch., but a Fifties movie slap: woman versus stupid, insensitive, unthinking man. Blindly struck, because her eyes are brimming, but she's not going to cry, because it would ruin her make-up and...

"All this time you let me think you were dead!"

And then her fingers capture scuffed leather, and lips and tongues meet, while mascara runs down her face.